Washington, July 22 (IANS) The Trump administration faced bipartisan scrutiny in the US Senate over whether it was circumventing congressional war powers by restarting a statutory 60-day deadline after a temporary ceasefire with Iran collapsed.Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski raised the issue during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on President Donald Trump’s $87.6 billion supplemental funding request. She said hostilities began on February 28 without specific congressional authorisa…
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Washington, June 27 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has called for sweeping election reforms, urging Congress to pass the SAVE America Act and require voters to show photo identification and proof of citizenship.Speaking at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference, Trump said the legislation was needed to protect US elections.”And now we have to pass the SAVE America Act to protect our sacred American elections,” Trump said.He said the proposed reforms should include vote…
Washington, May 13 (IANS) Democratic senators warned that the Trump administration risked dragging the United States into another prolonged Middle East conflict, as a tense Senate hearing exposed deep divisions over the ongoing war with Iran and its rising economic and military costs.During a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defence hearing on President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion defence budget, several Democratic lawmakers compared the current crisis to past US wars in Iraq an…
Washington, March 14 (IANS) A US senator has introduced legislation to ease visa costs for public schools in Alaska that rely heavily on international teachers, warning that a new $100,000 fee per H-1B visa could worsen already severe staffing shortages.Senator Lisa Murkowski said her bill would exempt K-12 public schools from the high visa fee imposed last year, allowing districts to continue hiring qualified educators from overseas to keep classrooms staffed.“As soon as this proclamation was…
Washington, March 12 (IANS) More than a century after federal law recognised that Native American reservations carried reserved rights to water, senators returned to a question that remains unresolved for many tribal families in Arizona: why do thousands of homes still lack running water?At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Wednesday (local time), lawmakers examined a sweeping settlement intended to resolve decades of disputes over water in north-eastern Arizona involving th…
Washington, Jan 8 (IANS) The Trump administration’s comments on Greenland, framed by officials as a national security issue, set off a political debate in Washington over diplomacy, NATO alliances and US strategy in the Arctic. At a White House briefing on Wednesday (local time), Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the possible acquisition of Greenland by the United States was “something that’s currently being actively discussed by the president and his national security team.”She argued the i…